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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".

Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.

Now, now.
1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".

56734518 wrote:

Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms.
"THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.

57864098 wrote:

Rhox War Monk just flips pancakes, and if games have told us anything, it's that food = life.

56747598 wrote:

76973988 wrote:

This thread has gotten creepy. XP

Really?
Really?
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?

I think the art on this card is good up until you get to the face where it just isn't. Anyway I like the card enough for it's abilities that I just don't care much about the art and would be happy to play it in many of my casual decks.

I don't think she looks fat so much as that her trunk and her legs are just highly disproportionate. Someone with a trunk that short just wouldn't have long legs like that. It's... off.

And I wouldn't have a problem with some characters being both kick*** (rather than the butts of visual jokes) and being big. I mean, I do think that in Magic characters would probably be more likely to be lean, since they do a lot of fighting, but I don't see why representing some variation in sizes should be more controversial than representing variation in skin colors and features.

(Aside: I would like to see some dark skinned elves in Magic -- and I don't mean "drow" types either. If humans living in tropical climes in Dominaria are dark-skinned (eg. Teferi, Kaervek, etc.), why aren't any elves? What makes them all white, and does that really make sense or is it, as I suspect, a kinda sketchy stereotype ultimately based on Tolkien, who is far more than kinda sketchy about race himself?)

Yeah, I know that some of the male audience (and, heck, some of the female audience, too, including me) like seeing stereotypically "beautiful" female bodies represented on some of the cards. But surely including female characters that aren't skinny, and showing them as effective and accomplished mages or even fighters on occasion is no big deal even if some people find them unattractive. These cards' art is not, after all, primarily about titillation. Not every woman represented on a card needs to be alluring. People who want that will gravitate toward art that depicts them that way; people who don't care won't care.

But back to my point. When I did martial arts, I knew a couple of black belts who were heavy -- and who I would not want to have been fighting against. Yeah, exercise makes most people lean.

I didn't notice her figure when I looked at this article yesterday, mainly because I just glanced over it since I never go to these events so I'm not likely to pick one up. But looking at it now I see a problem. First, she's not "fat" . Our society today has a painfully skewed perception of body image. If Marilyn Monroe were around today, she would be called "fat".

The problem with this art is, as some have noted, that it's out of proportion. In fact, if I had to describe it "scientifically", she looks pregnant. Like just starting to show and if she were a teenage girl, she could get away with hiding it under a loose sweatshirt.

But the arms and legs and everything else do not look "fat".

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"While it made thematic sense to separate enemy and allied color fixing in the past, we have come around to the definite conclusion that it is just plain incorrect from a game-play perspective. This is one of these situations where game play should just trump flavor." - Sam Stoddard on ending the separation of allied/enemy dual lands. 05 July 2013

to all you retards calling the illustration "disproportionate" or "fat"... go look at some cheesy porno or tv show if you want to see that type of body. Here in the land of people who are in touch with reality, there's such a thing as a healthy, filled-in, attractive girl, who doesn't have the exact body measurements to be considered worthy of sports illustrated.

As for the people criticising the artist for making her have different proportions than an average human being... THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND - This is an illustration, it is in a fantasy card game, and the person depicted is obviously an ELF.... WHAT RULES OF BODY PROPORTIONS ARE YOU FOLLOWING?

Finally, did anyone else notice that she is lying in an extremely seductive pose, and the fact that she's stroking an assortment of prophylactic-shaped objects? This is the dirtiest magic art since ponder! Go Volkan!

to all you retards calling the illustration "disproportionate" or "fat"... go look at some cheesy porno or tv show if you want to see that type of body. Here in the land of people who are in touch with reality, there's such a thing as a healthy, filled-in, attractive girl, who doesn't have the exact body measurements to be considered worthy of sports illustrated.

As for the people criticising the artist for making her have different proportions than an average human being... THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND - This is an illustration, it is in a fantasy card game, and the person depicted is obviously an ELF.... WHAT RULES OF BODY PROPORTIONS ARE YOU FOLLOWING?

Finally, did anyone else notice that she is lying in an extremely seductive pose, and the fact that she's stroking an assortment of prophylactic-shaped objects? This is the dirtiest magic art since ponder! Go Volkan!

I don't know about everybody else, but I'm talking about the angel, and WOTC has always based on angels on basic human proportions. And this rendering is out of proportion, period.

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"...but the time has come when lands just need to be better. Creatures have gotten stronger, spells have always been insane, and lands just sat in this awkward place of necessity." Jacob Van Lunen on the refuge duals, 16 Sep 2009.
"While it made thematic sense to separate enemy and allied color fixing in the past, we have come around to the definite conclusion that it is just plain incorrect from a game-play perspective. This is one of these situations where game play should just trump flavor." - Sam Stoddard on ending the separation of allied/enemy dual lands. 05 July 2013

Methinks TToA is looking at the slightly overly-rounded waist of the elf on Realms Uncharted, assuming everyone else is also, then overreacting - instead of realizing the correct context of the thread is an angel with thunder-thighs.

Maybe that's where the musculature needed to operate six wings is kept.

to all you retards calling the illustration "disproportionate" or "fat"... go look at some cheesy porno or tv show if you want to see that type of body. Here in the land of people who are in touch with reality, there's such a thing as a healthy, filled-in, attractive girl, who doesn't have the exact body measurements to be considered worthy of sports illustrated.

As for the people criticising the artist for making her have different proportions than an average human being... THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND - This is an illustration, it is in a fantasy card game, and the person depicted is obviously an ELF.... WHAT RULES OF BODY PROPORTIONS ARE YOU FOLLOWING?

Finally, did anyone else notice that she is lying in an extremely seductive pose, and the fact that she's stroking an assortment of prophylactic-shaped objects? This is the dirtiest magic art since ponder! Go Volkan!

I suggest you to read posts and think a bit before spitting all this aggressivity on people.

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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".

Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.

Now, now.
1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".

56734518 wrote:

Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms.
"THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.

57864098 wrote:

Rhox War Monk just flips pancakes, and if games have told us anything, it's that food = life.

56747598 wrote:

76973988 wrote:

This thread has gotten creepy. XP

Really?
Really?
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?

I think there are a number of problems with the artwork that makes her look "fat".

1. the scarf/cloth around her neck2. the fact that a lot of her body is in shadow makes it hard to see the outlines3. the tattered robes/cape hanging down behind her makes her sillouette much wider than she really is4. she is being lit from above but we are seeing her from below

Im sure that if you cut away all the cloth and brightened it up, she would look "normal". Rather than looking like a podgy winged octopus.

That makes no sense to me.
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~ Tim

I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.

56287226 wrote:

56735468 wrote:

And no judge will ever give you a game loss for playing snow covered lands.

I think there are a number of problems with the artwork that makes her look "fat".

1. the scarf/cloth around her neck2. the fact that a lot of her body is in shadow makes it hard to see the outlines3. the tattered robes/cape hanging down behind her makes her sillouette much wider than she really is4. she is being lit from above but we are seeing her from below

Im sure that if you cut away all the cloth and brightened it up, she would look "normal". Rather than looking like a podgy winged octopus.

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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".

Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.

Now, now.
1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".

56734518 wrote:

Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms.
"THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.

57864098 wrote:

Rhox War Monk just flips pancakes, and if games have told us anything, it's that food = life.

56747598 wrote:

76973988 wrote:

This thread has gotten creepy. XP

Really?
Really?
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?

to all you retards calling the illustration "disproportionate" or "fat"... go look at some cheesy porno or tv show if you want to see that type of body. Here in the land of people who are in touch with reality, there's such a thing as a healthy, filled-in, attractive girl, who doesn't have the exact body measurements to be considered worthy of sports illustrated.

As for the people criticising the artist for making her have different proportions than an average human being... THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND - This is an illustration, it is in a fantasy card game, and the person depicted is obviously an ELF.... WHAT RULES OF BODY PROPORTIONS ARE YOU FOLLOWING?

Finally, did anyone else notice that she is lying in an extremely seductive pose, and the fact that she's stroking an assortment of prophylactic-shaped objects? This is the dirtiest magic art since ponder! Go Volkan!

Irrelevant. She is an ANGEL. That means wings. Not really long legs on a very short trunk.

That makes it look wrong. No one is saying fat is wrong but even the fattest girl on the planet will have the right proportions generally.

As for elves the body type is slender. Willowy. Made for grace and speed over raw power.

I'm both selfish and rational. I'm scheming, secretive and manipulative; I use knowledge as a tool for personal gain, and in turn obtaining more knowledge. At best, I am mysterious and stealthy; at worst, I am distrustful and opportunistic.

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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".

Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.

Now, now.
1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".

56734518 wrote:

Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms.
"THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.

57864098 wrote:

Rhox War Monk just flips pancakes, and if games have told us anything, it's that food = life.

56747598 wrote:

76973988 wrote:

This thread has gotten creepy. XP

Really?
Really?
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?

Your human antics and desire to continue living have moved me. Just kidding. You cannot move me physically or emotionally. Wall humor.

57092228 wrote:

Copy effects work like a photocopy machine: you get a copy of the 'naked' card, NOT of what's on it.

56995928 wrote:

Funny story: InQuest Magazine (I think it was InQuest) had an oversized Chaos Orb which I totally rooked someone into allowing into a (non-sanctioned) game. I had a proxy card that was a Mountain with "Chaos Orb" written on it. When I played it, my opponent cried foul: Him: "WTF? a Proxy? no-one said anything about Proxies. Do you even own an actual Chaos Orb?" Me: "Yes, but I thought it would be better to use a Proxy." Him: "No way. If you're going to put a Chaos Orb in your deck you have to use your actual Chaos Orb." Me: "*Sigh*. Okay." I pulled out this huge Chaos Orb and placed it on the table. He tried to cry foul again but everyone else said he insisted I use my actual Chaos Orb and that was my actual Chaos Orb. I used it, flipped it and wiped most of his board. Unsurprisingly, that only worked once and only because everyone present thought it was hilarious.

My DM on Battleminds:

no, see i can kill defenders, but 8 consecutive crits on a battlemind, eh walk it off.

144543765 wrote:

195392035 wrote:

Hi guys! So, I'm a sort of returning player to Magic. I say sort of because as a child I had two main TCG's I liked. Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokemon. Some of my friends branched off in to Magic, and I bought two pre-made decks just to kind of fit in. Like I said, Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon were what I really knew how to play. I have a extensive knowledge of deck building in those two TCG's. However, as far as Magic is concerned, I only ever used those two pre made decks. I know how the game is played, and I know general things, but now I want to get in the game for real. I want to begin playing it as a regular. My question is, are all cards ever released from the time of the inception of this game until present day fair game in a deck? Or are there special rules? Are some cards forbidden or restricted? Thanks guys, and I will gladly accept ANY help lol.

I have the same problem with women.

117639611 wrote:

198869283 wrote:

Oh I have a standing rule. If someone plays a Planeswalker I concede the game. I refuse to play with or against people who play Planeswalkers. They really did ruin the game.

And that's why you should never, ever call RP Jesus on being a troll, because then everyone else playing along gets outed, too, and the thread goes back to being boring.

57461258 wrote:

See, this is why RPJesus should be in charge of the storyline. The novel line would never have been cancelled if he had been running the show. Specifically the Slobad and Geth's Head talkshow he just described.

57461258 wrote:

Not only was that an obligatory joke, it was an on-topic post that still managed to be off-topic due to thread derailment. RP Jesus does it again folks.

92481331 wrote:

I think I'm gonna' start praying to Jesus... That's right, RPJesus, I'm gonna' be praying to you, right now. O' Jesus Please continue to make my time here on the forums fun and cause me to chuckle. Amen.

92481331 wrote:

56957928 wrote:

It was wonderful. Us Johnnies had a field day. That Timmy with the Grizzly bears would actually have to think about swinging into your Mogg Fanatic, giving you time to set up your sillycombo. Nowadays it's all DERPSWING! with thier blue jeans and their MP3 players and their EM EM OH AR PEE JEES and their "Dewmocracy" and their children's card games and their Jersey Shores and their Tattooed Tenaged Vampire Hunters from Beverly Hills

Seriously, that was amazing. I laughed my *ss off. Made my day, and I just woke up.

[quote=ArtVenn You're still one of my favorite people... just sayin'.[/quote]

56756068 wrote:

56786788 wrote:

.....would it be a bit blasphemous if I said, "PRAYSE RPJAYSUS!" like an Evangelical preacher?

Perhaps, but who doesn't like to blaspheme every now and again? Especially when Mr. RPJesus is completely right.

56756068 wrote:

I don't say this often, but ... LOL

57526128 wrote:

You... You... Evil something... I actualy made the damn char once I saw the poster... Now you made me see it again and I gained resolve to put it into my campaign. Shell be high standing oficial of Cyrix order. Uterly mad and only slightly evil. And it'll be bad. Evil even. And ill blame you and Lizard for it :P.

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...Am I the only one that thinks this is reaching the point of downright Kafkaesque insanity?

I condone the use of the word Kafkaesque. However, I'm presentely ambivalent. I mean, that can't be serious, right? We're April 1st, right? They didn't mod RPJesus for off-topic discussion when the WHOLE THREAD IS OFF-TOPIC, right? Right.

57545908 wrote:

56957928 wrote:

Save or die. If you disagree with this, you're wrong (Not because of any points or arguements that have been made, but I just rolled a d20 for you and got a 1, so you lose).

58397368 wrote:

58222628 wrote:

This just won the argument, AFAIC.

That's just awesome.

57471038 wrote:

57718868 wrote:

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THE BEAR PRODUCING WORDS OF WILDING?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!

That's what RPJesus tends to do. That's why I don't think he's a real person, but some Magic Card Archive Server sort of machine, that is programmed to react to other posters' comments with obscure cards that do in fact exist, but somehow missed by even the most experienced Magic players. And then come up with strange combos with said cards. All of that is impossible for a normal human to do given the amount of time he does it and how often he does it. He/It got me with Light of Sanction, which prompted me to go to RQ&A to try and find if it was even possible to do combat damage to a creature I control (in light that Mark of Asylum exists).

71235715 wrote:

+10

100176878 wrote:

56957928 wrote:

57078538 wrote:

heaven or hell.

Round 1. Lets rock.

GG quotes! RPJesus just made this thread win!

56906968 wrote:

56957928 wrote:

143359585 wrote:

Blue players get all the overpowerered cards like JTMS. I think it's time that wizards gave something to people who remember what magic is really about: creatures.

Initially yes, Wizards was married to blue. However, about a decade ago they had a nasty divorce, and a few years after that they began courting the attention of Green. Then in Worldwake they had a nasty affair with their ex, but as of Innistrad, things seem to have gotten back on track, and Wizards has even proposed.

You are my favorite. Yes you. And moments like this make it so. Thank you RPJesus for just being you.

I'm a fan of the "twiggy" version myself... it's an oldie but goodie. They are showing improvement with more athletic Ornithopters as well as a "plus size" one.

I expect in the next set we'll see new ornithopters between 2011 and the next block there will be lots of artifacts. Personally, I'm hoping for an Ornithopter crossed with Kitesail as an artifact-creature-equipment. So it can be 0/1 Flying for 0, or be attached for +0/+1 flying to a creature.... the rules for such a critter would be fun... my totem is attached to an ornithopter... do you damage the creature attached or the ornithopter?... good times!

That makes no sense to me.
If they spelled the ability out on the card in full then it would not be allowed in a mono-black Commander deck, but because they used a keyword to save space it is allowed?
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I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.

56287226 wrote:

56735468 wrote:

And no judge will ever give you a game loss for playing snow covered lands.

I am both selfish and instinctive. I value growth and community, as long as they favour my own objectives; I enjoy nature, and I particularly enjoy watching parts of nature die. At best, I am resilient and tenacious; at worst, I'm uncontrollable and destructive.

I shake my head at some commenters and hope that Wizards isn't deterred from introducing more angels that don't look like skinny porn models.

As long as they're in proportion.

To be clear, I'm a fan of woman in real life that have some meat on their bones. I'm also a fan of very skinny but well toned women, as long as the proportions are right. I don't like seeing their clavicle bones sticking through their skins anymore than I want to see their beer guts showing from underneath their witty t-shirts.

Different sized people in Magic art would be a good thing, but even within the creative field of art, there are still rules about proportion and such.

How about those Ornithopters.

I'm a fan of the "twiggy" version myself... it's an oldie but goodie. They are showing improvement with more athletic Ornithopters as well as a "plus size" one.

I expect in the next set we'll see new ornithopters between 2011 and the next block there will be lots of artifacts. Personally, I'm hoping for an Ornithopter crossed with Kitesail as an artifact-creature-equipment. So it can be 0/1 Flying for 0, or be attached for +0/+1 flying to a creature.... the rules for such a critter would be fun... my totem is attached to an ornithopter... do you damage the creature attached or the ornithopter?... good times!

I'm having trouble buying this most recent artwork as a zero mana cost creature. The earlier ones look like kites brought to life, and that works for their CMC, but that new thing looks too intricate to be so easy to cast.

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I don't like this new thopter either. It looks a lot more like a flying ship than a thopter, even with the bird scalling. Actually, even more with the bird scalling. The perfect thopter was the one from Mirrodin.

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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".

Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.

Now, now.
1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".

56734518 wrote:

Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms.
"THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.

57864098 wrote:

Rhox War Monk just flips pancakes, and if games have told us anything, it's that food = life.

56747598 wrote:

76973988 wrote:

This thread has gotten creepy. XP

Really?
Really?
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?

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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".

Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.

Now, now.
1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".

56734518 wrote:

Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms.
"THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.

57864098 wrote:

Rhox War Monk just flips pancakes, and if games have told us anything, it's that food = life.

56747598 wrote:

76973988 wrote:

This thread has gotten creepy. XP

Really?
Really?
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?

Also, I think that Nissa Revane can also "put a theoretically unbounded number of creatures into play without any help"...

Nissa is limited to four of each elf. She can "only" put out 4 of every elf ever printed. In casual, spawnsire is only limited by how many Eldrazi have ever been printed. Also, does anyone

Also, does anyone else find it funny that one of the featured articles is about the things R&D learned from Urza block and they mentioned powerful commons that warp limited, and how they would NEVER print cards like that nowadays at common because they are so much more knowledgable and thoughtful, and today's Arcana was a wallpaper of Dawnglare Invoker?

Also, does anyone else find it funny that one of the featured articles is about the things R&D learned from Urza block and they mentioned powerful commons that warp limited, and how they would NEVER print cards like that nowadays at common because they are so much more knowledgable and thoughtful, and today's Arcana was a wallpaper of Dawnglare Invoker?

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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".

Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.

Now, now.
1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".

56734518 wrote:

Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms.
"THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.

57864098 wrote:

Rhox War Monk just flips pancakes, and if games have told us anything, it's that food = life.

56747598 wrote:

76973988 wrote:

This thread has gotten creepy. XP

Really?
Really?
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?

Dawnglare is about 1000x easier to answer then Pestilence. In UZ draft there were 2 colors that could get rid of it. In Rise, every color but blue can handle a dawnglare fine, and even blue can find a way to deal with it.

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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".

Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.

Now, now.
1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".

56734518 wrote:

Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms.
"THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.

57864098 wrote:

Rhox War Monk just flips pancakes, and if games have told us anything, it's that food = life.

56747598 wrote:

76973988 wrote:

This thread has gotten creepy. XP

Really?
Really?
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?